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I’m obviously not a doctor, none of this is medical advice.
My perspective on visibly aging, for myself, is this: I want to look like the best possible version of my own age. No younger, ideally not older, but just like a very healthy, well-loved 40 year-old. This involves a little bit of botox, a tiny bit of filler in my lips, Botox in my neck, Sofwave for my neck, a hint of Sculptra, lots of sunscreen, a red light mask and a Lyma laser (this thing is so expensive but it REALLY works). I don’t have a twenty step beauty routine (I cleanse, serum, moisturize - or in the morning just splash with cold water and SPF), but I do really love in-office procedures that aim to strengthen my skin and help it regenerate.
I’m generally very happy and satisfied with the way I look, but occasionally there are things that start to bother me. My neck flap is one, my nasolabial folds (flaps) sometimes bother me, under my eyes it’s starting to look very crepey (I love the look of crow’s feet so I don’t botox my eyes, thus the undereye is getting crinkly) and that skin just feels thin. My beloved Christina at Contrapposto (Christina is THE BEST THERE IS. I will never see anyone other than her, she is the absolute best in LA) suggested I could try PRF for under my eyes if it really bothered me. I needed to go by for something else (more on that in a second) and I’d heard great things about PRF, so I thought, what the hell. Let’s go for it. We also went over the before and afters from Sofwave, which were pretty impressive! Those are here too.
And I was in the mood to get a little attention that day so I thought, maybe I could turn the appointment into a Substack Live! Alas, that would have been a bad idea because the appointment was a lot of us giggling and dead time, but I did film the whole thing so you can see what its like, and I grill Christina on all kinds of other skincare questions (what does one do about neck lines, for example. Or, how much down time is there really after a CO2 laser?). You can watch it all here. ...
